Ideology and philology. Volume 3

Ideology and philology. Volume 3. Case Konstantin Azadovkolheningrad, December 1980. On the eve of Chekist"s Day, a well-known scientist, head of the department of foreign languages, and his wife throw drugs. The efforts of colleagues and friends - from Academicians Mikhail Alekseeva and Dmitry Likhachev in Leningrad to Joseph Brodsky and Sergey Dovyttov in the United States - no power to influence the tragic course of events, everything is decided in advance. Peaceful life and fruitful work of the Philologist-Germanist are broken, giving way to the man-made hell: a fictitious consequence, a chamber in crosses, falsification of criminal case materials, a conviction, 10 thousand kilometers of stages on Kolyma, life in the Susmansky colony, suicide attempt, prison hospital, liberation, For many years of persistent struggle for rehabilitation ... The new book of Moscow historian Peter Druzhinin, which continues his large-scale study on the relationship between the Soviet ideology and humanitarian science, is built on a variety of archival documents, materials of the KGB of the USSR, certificates of contemporaries. The author managed to recreate a merciless and at the same time exciting picture of public life at the sunset of the Soviet era and show - through the dramatic fate of the main character - the work of the Soviet law enforcement system based on lawlessness and arbitrariness